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• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  or do community service work study, and the money earned is more of a ... summer. And there’s a term, “FOMO”, or “Fear of Missing Out”, that I think ... year, and we’re all always busy, so this is, surprisingly, a rare chance

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Lip Sync ‘08 Because I want . . . you . . . back

  

  over Kresge auditorium and looked very fancy (free food and nice outfits ... the work is completely overwhelming and any time not spent working is ... of Friday and all of Saturday completely off. Yes, that screws me for

  • by Snively '11
  • April 27, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Party of One A fun day trip idea when you're getting tired of homework.

  

  seating cabin as well as a free beverage and newspaper. Essentially, you ... to all sorts of cool places to visit. And one of the great things about ... weekend, I woke up early, packed some physics notes, and headed to Boston

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Football home opener College football is as American as apple pie.

  

  members at the Activities Midway. We mostly utilized free candy and the ... -cheerleader.) Well, after training the new girls (and guy) pretty intensely over the ... yesterday. Although the weather was miserable, we all curled our hair and put

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  In Stereo

  

  I just returned from seeing an LSC free sneak preview of I Heart ... Mile and Grosse Pointe Blank, and missed sneaks of School of Rock and Harold and Kumar go to White Castle, among others. I was planning to use

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in My Summer Life Starts at 5 AM, ends at 10:30 PM, and go-go-go in between.

  

  -beep-beep-beep - my alarm goes off, I look out my window, and I realize that once again ... , and since all of us are used to showering in the morning instead of at night, my mornings tend to (1) start early, and (2) be a little hectic

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Uncreative Post with an uncreative title

  

  exploration. Many on hall felt free and ready to mingle, and went out every week ... to blog about). Post intros began piling up, losing their relevance and ... the essentials of IAP and Spring semester.   During IAP, I took

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  5 Halloween Costume Ideas for MIT Students but they're pretty bad

  

  and math jargon really scream "MIT." Show off that school pride! Con ... get to go up to them and say, "Boy, that really was the bee's knees!" and then smear honey all over them. Con: Doing that might make people

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  undergrads who would love the opportunity to do research and learn about their field. And we have the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program doing all the magic in-between dealing with proposals, funding, and listings

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2023!

  

  up and check AirNow to see if more smoke is floating down through the Great Concavity and I need to mask outdoors as well as indoors today my potted Cattley Guava is fruiting (in USDA zone 6!) it is time for those

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  list of things that refill my will to live things to do when i don't want to do anything

  

  camp two years ago, when we were all crashing andrew's room and it was the halfway point of the camp and we were all sad about it being halfway over and we hugged each other for a solid five minutes and that was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  goodbye, thoughts; welcome, semester tfw classes are my saving grace

  

  are *gasp* relevant! and interesting!! and I'm only taking four of them ... literally all the time. I'm also going through a break-up...and it sucks. I ... spent a lot of quality time with my roommates, and it was helpful for me

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  back in east campus jiggity jig

  

  laptop was broken, and put it on floorpi's free food table. hopefully some ... i moved back to east campus last weekend, and to continue the kinda ... helped with transportation again, and i had the foresight to distribute the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 13, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hitting Rewind on 2013 a summary of posts I never ended up writing from IAP till now

  

  Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays are free - which means EVERY weekend is ... , tests, med school interviews, extracurriculars, and more. By the time ... final presentation, 2 final projects, and 2 final exams then flew home to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Splish Splash ♪ ♫ great programs at MIT and beyond!

  

  , UCLA, UMBC and more! They're also cheap or even free! (Food, too ... . over. and. over. Like I am now, except now I'm not dancing to it. After I found this song (and immediately realized how positively musically

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Application: August 19 In a few short weeks, the MIT 2012 Freshman Application will be posted.

  

  and contemplation than speed. I wish you a thoughtful and anxiety-free ... Action (EA), and January 1 for Regular Action (RA). While there are still ... Doc of the various deadlines and requirements for all of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2011
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can I join the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change?

  You may! Understanding the complex, long-term changes in our land, air, and water requires breakthroughs in measurement, modeling, and ... comprehend agriculture, energy needs, trade, and finance—along with the
• Blog / MIT Life

  the children yearn for the snow quarry 120 bricks, 80 man hours, 3 tons of snow, 2 forts, and a partridge in…

  

  almost four hours, and there’s almost three inches on the ground. This can ... Midnight Castle Step 1: Where and when? Ideally, somewhere with snow on the ... recreational field just outside most of our dorms, and a premier location for any

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 13, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  Hello and happy new year (kind of)! I was really bummed out to make ... fit this 2020. I learned how to properly lift things and I became pretty fit over the summer, and I've kind of fallen out of habit now that our

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Mist in the streets of Boston monday wanderings

  

  courtyards and free food events and loud, dark rooms, exchange majors and ... My friends and I met at noon on the Harvard Bridge, shoulders hunched ... on the street.  We meandered down Beacon Street and stopped to watch

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 20, 2023